Some Observations
1) Well, took a look at the prize line. 18 pages? 17750 progress? yeah right. Maybe when you hear the bell ring, Tattoo shouts "Da Plane, Da Plane!!!", a hawaiian girl hands me a drink and Mr, Roarke says "Welcome to Fantasy Island".
2) I read that mobile gold track is $4 more than PC. Not sure why and, honestly, I don't want to know why there is a difference.
3) I have the event building in beta, it is nice but getting BPs 50% of the time has become annoying. Sure, I could benefit with my BG but, unless there is a different BG out there, I am running out of things to use for attempts. Even going to L91 and getting 1 more, 15, I would still run short. I chose the Couples Resort, mentioned the name of the building to my wife. She is still looking for the plane tickets and brochure to check out the resort services. I told her contact Tattoo...lol
4) I do like the event mechanism, I usually do for events. I agree with the look, can be confusing, guess it was the best after changes in beta. At the start of beta it was worse. What I don't like, at all and mentioned 5 times in beta, WHY 2 DIFFERENT LAYOUTS???? Talk about annoying. I like the one that has the open spaces to the left (6th time mentioning it). The other one looks like a foosball table and I have to fish around to find my spawned players. They don't look like players but I guess that is what they are. I don't understand why change it from gems that we had in the Anniversary event. It isn't like I see the badges and think, "Wow, this is something brand new, never seen it before. Those folks must have put in countless hours to get this done."
5) It isn't all negative, I like we can get Gentiana and Athlon gold level upgrades via regular play, big plus.
6) I am not a fan of diamond spending in this event, it seems like a diamond trap. Sure, you can spawn more but many times it doesn't yield much. You can play extra boards, 160, 320, etc but those are high ante costs, for sure lots of diamonds.
7) The auxiliary buildings, Nicko's Gyro Trailer and Franks Feta Farm plus Goat Petting Zoo are nice, can replace some things but not sure I would go crazy getting them but nice additions.
Nicko's can replace nutcrackers, bit more red D and some blue A, lose red A
Frankie's FF&GPZ, nice especially if you have Lotus Lakes on the Panda, same FP + army stats, easy winner.
8) The rewards and X2 are the best of all events. There isn't much garbage to get, FPs, goods, rogues/champs help many players and high %'s for daily specials.
So, for me, clearing the boards one time a day beats the festival mechanisms St Pats/Fellowship (pls just keep it 1 time per year)